Putin e i rapporti franco-americani
1/6/2008Di fronte all’offensiva statunitense per integrare Ucraina e Georgia nella NATO, Vladimir Putin fa appello a quel mondo politico francese che ha sempre visto l’asse euro-russo come un’alternativa alla centralità americana.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin compared the U.S. to a “frightening monster'’ and urged France to distance itself from its American ally.
“How can one be such a shining example of democracy at home and a frightening monster abroad?'’ Putin said in an interview with French newspaper Le Monde transmitted live to journalists in Paris yesterday.
Putin, speaking the day after meeting French President Nicolas Sarkozy, said the U.S. was creating “new Berlin Walls'’ in Europe by pushing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to expand into ex-Soviet states Georgia and Ukraine.
Ma l’idea di un “asse franco-tedesco-russo” non sembra avere molte chances di essere rilanciata, e anzi Sarkozy e Merkel mirano innanzitutto a un rilancio dell’asse transatlantico dopo i difficili anni dell’Amministrazione Bush…
